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Development of the honey bees - from the egg to the bee
Development of the honey bees table
The honey bees were divided into three natures:
Female worker, queen and drone. The following table gives
at the best explanation about the differences.
| Female worker | Queen | Drone | |
| Egg | fertilized | fertilized | unbefruchtet |
| Put down into | Worker bee's cell | Weiselnaepfchen | Drohnenzelle |
| Feeding the larva also | at first with female worker fodder juice, late mixing fodder | Queen or Weiselfuttersaft | Drone fodder juice |
| Development time of it Eizeit Larva time Doll time |
21 days 3 days 6 days 12 days |
16 days 3 days 5 days 8 days |
24 days 3 days 8 days 15 days |
| Cell cover becomes with the slip | abgeschrottet | cut off | cut off |
| Slip weight | about 100 mg | about 200 mg | about 200 mg |
| Body length | 12-15 mm | 18-22 mm | 15-17 mm |
| Sex-ripe after | about 7 days | about 14 days | |
| Kopulation also | up to 30 drones | with 1 queen | |
| Life span | in the summer 2-6 weeks in the winter 4-7 months |
3-4 years | 1-3 months |
| Number in the people | 5.000-55.000 | normally 1 | 0-1000 |
| Special parts of the body | Honey blister Polling collecting apparatus Fat protein Fodder juice glands Oberkieferdruesen Salivary glands Wax glands Inciting and giftblase Excrement blister Smell glands |
Oberkieferdruesen Samenblase Ovaries Inciting and giftblase Smell glands |
Sex organs strengthens flight musculature |
This diagram shows the development of the honey bees on an assembly drawing.